I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in some way, to change what you see, to change how you see it. To change how you see… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we… — Pat Steir Copy Share
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have… — Pat Steir Copy Share
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is… — Pat Steir Copy Share
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates… — Pat Steir Copy Share
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. — Pat Steir Copy Share
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see… — Pat Steir Copy Share
We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you… — Pat Steir Copy Share
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one… — Pat Steir Copy Share
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual… — Pat Steir Copy Share
I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want… — Pat Steir Copy Share
